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BICYCLE SUPPORTING STAND.

No. 564,733. Patented July 28, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VILLIAM N. BEARDSLEY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO MARCELLUS HARTLEY AND MALCOLM GRAHAM, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

BICYCLE-SUPPORTING STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,733, dated July 28, 1896. Application filed April 19, 1895. Serial No. 546,298. (No model.l

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWILLIAM N. BEARDSLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle- Supporting Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved bicyclesupporting stand; and it consists of certain elements and combination of parts, as will be more fully set forth in the following specification, and such features as are new and novel more particularly pointed out in the claims to follow.

To enable others to fully understand my invention and its application to the purpose for which it is intended, reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1' represents a side elevation of a bicycle mounted and supported on my improved stand. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail side elevation of the supporting-frame detached from its vertical supporting-spindle and an ad justable slide therefor. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail end elevation of the supporting-frame and adjustable slide, looking in the direction of arrow a of Fig. 2, but not showing the supporting-ear of said frame. Fig. at is a detail side and end elevation of the clamping-block for securing the slide to the frame.

Its construction and operation are as follows:

1 represents an ordinary supporting tripod having caster-rolls 2, as shown.

3 is a spindle having a vertical adjustment in the hub of the said tripod and secured in any position required by the thumb-screw 4, the upper end of which spindle has the forked head 5 to receive the ear 6, Fig. 2, of the supporting-frame 7. The belt 8, Fig. 1, clamps such forked head firmly against said ear, thus providing means whereby the radial adjustment of the frame relatively with the spindle 4 is maintained. The forward portion or arm 7 of the frame 7 is V-shaped, as. shown at Fig. 3. The slide 9 is also a V-shaped piece, that is supported in the V-shaped frame. Ribs 10 project from the sides of such slide and rest on the upper arm 7 of the supporting-frame 7 but these ribs may, if desired,

be dispensed with and the slide supported entirely by the V-shaped construction of arm 7 11 is a clamping-block,preferably V-shaped, so as to loosely embrace the slide 9, so that its edges b will rest on the lower edge e of arm 7 of the supporting-frame 7. The bolt 12 is secured to the slide 9 with its free end projecting through the block 11 and carrying the, clamping-nut 13.

14 is a metal strap which operates as a clamp and is intended to embrace the tubular brace 15 of the bicycle-frame. One end of said clamp is pivoted to the cars 16 of the slide 9, while to the other or free end is pivotally supported the clamping-bolt 17, carrying the clamping-nut 18,whose face is brought against the bottom of cars 19 of slide 9 for the purpose of securing the clamp thereto.

In using the stand the sprocket-wheel hub 20 is placed in the circular recess of the frame 7, while the tubular brace 15 will rest in the V-shaped slide 9, but as the size of this hub will vary in the different bicycles the slide 9 is thus given a longitudinal adjustment, so that said hub will find a resting place between the face cl of the slide 9 and the face e of the frame 7. The nut 13 will clamp such slide firmly to the frame, while the clamp 14 holds the tubular brace 15 firmly to the said slide.

From the above the utility of this device is readily seen and appreciated. It supports the bicycle in an upright as well as in an elevated position, so that the wheels do not rest on the floor, thus allowing them free rotation for the purpose of oiling or for repairs, as the case may be. Besides, the pneumatic tires, when the wheels are thus elevated, are thereby released from that constant pressure caused by the weight of the machine when such tires rest on the floor.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bicycle-support, comprising in combination, the frame 7 having a circular recess to support the hub portion and the project ing arm 7 to support the angularly-disposed tubular brace of a bicycle; adjustable slide 9, having an inclined face d, mounted in the projecting arm of said frame and adapted to be adjusted therein to and from the circularhub seat of such frame so that, the incline face d of said slide and the incline face 6 of the frame Will engage the bicycle-hub and compensate for different sizes of the same, combined with a clamping-block and nut for securing said slide in any of its adjusted positions.

2. In a bicycle-supporting stand, of the character described, comprising in combination, a supporting-stand having a verticallyadjustable spindle carrying a Vertically-adjustable frame having a circular support for the hub of a bicycle, and a projecting arm to support the brace thereof, of a longitudinallyadjustable slide mounted in said arm; means field and State of Connecticut, this 5th day of v April,'A. D. 1895. I

WILLIAM N. BEARDSLEY.

Witnesses:

CHARLES W. MASON, LEWIS F. PELToN. 

